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The Color of the Future: A history of blue

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130 points prismatic | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 09:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.534s | source
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blaze33 ◴[04 Sep 25 12:01 UTC] No.45126303[source]▶
> It is the most technological color, and I’m willing to claim that this is why it is usually, in science fiction and elsewhere, used to represent the future.

For me it is because of red- and blueshifting[1]. Far away galaxies appear both older and redder the further away they are, so red is the past. And if you go really fast, the forward view will be bluer, so in the sense that it is where you go, blue is the future. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Blueshift

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1. nsxwolf ◴[04 Sep 25 14:08 UTC] No.45127455[source]▶
Don’t they also say we only started seeing blue as a distinct color recently? That gives it future vibes.
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2. MangoToupe ◴[04 Sep 25 15:33 UTC] No.45128437[source]▶
I think this is just a misunderstanding on how colors are referred to.
3. brookst ◴[05 Sep 25 04:27 UTC] No.45134981[source]▶
Yeah I remember before and it was really weird looking.